Example sentences of "he [verb] three year " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got three years . |
| 2 | Richard says he started ski-ing on the coast and then one day went out with skies and that 's how he started barefoot … he says three years ago he stopped competing as life or death and just goes out to enjoy himself |
| 3 | He spent three years at Charing Cross Hospital School of Nursing before qualifying as a Registered General Nurse in 1983 . |
| 4 | After more exposure in the West End , he spent three years at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre , playing 12 large Shakespeare roles with distinction . |
| 5 | After his ordination in 1953 , he spent three years as assistant priest at the Immaculate Conception Church , Glasgow . |
| 6 | He spent three years on it till he got into Sakata . |
| 7 | Unlike the founders of the older firms , Reynolds did not come from a management consultancy background ; after his early financial services work , he spent three years with William H. Clark , a headhunter from the price Waterhouse fold . |
| 8 | After qualifying as an apothecary in 1832 , he was appointed medical officer to the General Hospital in Bath , where he spent three years before his health broke down and he went to London for an operation . |
| 9 | He spent three years in New York State as resident secretary of the Sleepy Hollow Country Club , a rich men 's recreation park on the Hudson River , whence he could keep an eye on wealthy Irish-Americans . |
| 10 | In 1868 he began a two-year novitiate at Manresa House , Roehampton , after which he spent three years as seminarian at St Mary 's , Stonyhurst . |
| 11 | From 1938 to 1940 he was in England ; he returned to New Zealand in 1940 , working at various jobs until 1942 , when he joined the NZRAF , in which he spent three years . |
| 12 | After gaining a doctorate in Chemical Engineering he spent three years lecturing at University College , Swansea and then , in 1967 , he became Professor of Chemical Engineering at Bradford University . |
| 13 | He served three years ' apprenticeship at Blackadder , Berwickshire , before entering the Edinburgh Botanic Garden , where he was soon placed in charge of the glasshouses . |
| 14 | Gray had told the board he needed three years to build a top side . |
| 15 | He died three years ago . |
| 16 | Papillon was his last film , and he died three years later in 1976 , aged 70 . |
| 17 | He died three years later in November 1846 . |
| 18 | He died three years after the accident . |
| 19 | He died three years ago . |
| 20 | After training as a chef , he completed three years ' National Service in the Army , and worked as a sales representative and marketing manager . |
| 21 | With the next general election not due until May 1960 , he had three years in which to establish himself as Prime Minister , provided he could ride through the political fallout from Suez . |
| 22 | The war had interrupted and postponed many a career , J's amongst them , and he had three years ' university ahead of him before he would be in any position to marry . |
| 23 | ‘ He had three years with John Edwards , but we bought him back for 5,600gns a year last June and he will be with me for the rest of his days . ’ |
| 24 | He had three years in the Civil Service after Oriental Languages at Cambridge . |
| 25 | ‘ The telephones began buzzing with eager contributors ’ , he wrote three years later in his book Playpower , ‘ and what was once my merely exhibitionist impulse to impress a friendly gossip columnist soon gathered its own momentum . ’ |